You Come on, Hal! Hal Turned His Head Away and Spoke Resolutely

"Wait, what are you going to do?"

Parallax Hal asked.

"No matter how Barbatos managed to repeatedly drag you into the definition of death, we only need to know one thing: all of this is being driven by Barbatos's dark matter energy."

Seeing Batman looking grief-stricken, he continued, "I previously tried using the power of the White Lantern to drag you out of Black Death Emperor's death energy, but it was too difficult. I tried several times, yet failed again and again."

Hal gritted his teeth. "This power of death is the Black Death Emperor you mentioned?"

After asking the question, he immediately answered himself. "Yes... That's right. I just tried using the power of the seven-colored Emotional Spectrum and the White Lantern ring to help you expel this Black Death Emperor's power, but the results were minimal."

"That's impossible. Black Death Emperor's power isn't that strong." Hal and Batman voiced the same conclusion in unison.

Then Parallax Hal heard Batman say, "So, according to my reasoning..."

Chen Tao opened his mouth and spewed out a long string of nonsense Hal couldn't understand.

After wearing down Hal's patience a little, he predictably fell for it. "Just tell me the conclusion."

Excellent.

Chen Tao thought silently. This is the first step in the domestication process.

Hal still had a brain, but he had already begun choosing to give up thinking and let Chen Tao serve as his external brain. This was a tremendous breakthrough.

This breakthrough had to be maintained. Ideally, Hal would completely get used to Batman offering suggestions beside him. At that point, the domestication would be complete.

Master Domesticator Chen Tao thought this as a matter of course.

"So, according to my reasoning, the conclusion is that Black Death Emperor's power must originate from Barbatos."

Then he said,